Balance



(No Model.)

A. SPRINGER.

BALANCE.-

No. 310,545. Patented Jan. 6, 1885.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

ALFRED SPRINGER, OF CINCINNATI, OHIO, ASSIGNOR TO THE TORSIONAL BALANCE AND SCALE COMPANY, OF OHIO.

BALANCE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 310,545, dated January 6, 1885.

(No model.)

manifest that in such construction a weight T at whom, it may concern.-

Be it known that I, ALFRED SPRINGER, a placed out of the true center of support tends citizen of the United States, residing at Cinto deflect or bend the standard laterally, and cinnati, Ohio, have invented new and useful in such case to alter the actual distance thence Improvements in Balances, of which the i'olto the central plane of the fulcrum and to de 55 lowing is a specification. stroy thereby the true balance of the beams.

My invention relates to that class of beam- As a remedy for this difiieulty, I bifurcate scales in which the scale-pans are supported the standard, as shown, and between its upper above the beam, as in common form of counter extremities, c c, suspend a scale-pan support,

'0 scales for druggists use. In such balances, I), by means of suspendinglinks or hangersdd. 6 especially where, as is the case in scales for The construction exhibitedin the drawings delicate weighing, the supporting-standards is simple and effective, in which the pan-supare thin and light, a weight placed out of the port D is a wire ring secured to the suspendcenter line of support tends to move the stand inglinks d, which project upward at the ard out of'its true vertical line, and to that sides and turn outward to form pivotal sup- 6 extent lengthens or shortens the beam leverports resting in open slots in the upper ends age and destroys the true balance. My invenof the arms 0 c. The scale-pan E itself may be tion seeks to remedy this evil; and it consists substituted for the ring, and thus suspended; of a pivotally-suspended scale-pan, in combibut in general it is preferable to construct 2O nation with the standard, whereby the deIieethe parts separately, as shown. When thus 70 tion of the support is practically avoided, all arranged, a weight, w, being placed in the as hereinafter more particularly set forth and pan at one side of the plane of vertical mo claimed. tion, the parts so adjust themselves as to re For the purpose of illustration, I have setain the center of gravity in such plane.

lected and exhibit in the drawings a double- It will be obvious that the details of con- 75 beam torsion-balance, in which the scalestruction in the pivotal bearings of the suspans are mounted on supportirig-standards pended scale-pan maybe Varied in many ways above the beams; but it will be obvious that without departing from the essential principle the invention is equally applicable to balances 1 of my invention, which is also equally appli of other kinds. cable to simple beamseales. s

In the drawings, Figure 1 represents in per- I claim and desire to secure by Letters Patspeetive elevation a portion of a double-beam ent scale, showing the ends of the beams at one 1. In abeam-scale of the character described, end and the scale-pan support with my inin combination withthe beam, ascale-pan piv- 5 vention applied; and Fig. 2, a detached view otally hung from a point of support above the 8 5 of the upper end of the standard, exhibiting beam, substantially as and for the purpose set myimproved suspended scale-pan support. forth.

Referring, by the aid of the letters of ref- 2. In a beam-scale, a bifurcated standard erence herein, to the drawings, A A designate for carrying the scale-pan above the beam, in

0 the u )perandlowcr scale-beams, respectively, combination with a scale-pan pivotally sus- 90 mounted on "fixed pivots (not shown in the pended between its bifurcated arms, substandrawings) at their centers, and connected at tially as and for the purpose set forth. their ends by wire pivots, acting torsionally, In testimony whereof I have hereunto set stretched over a skeleton frame, B, the genmy hand in the presence of two subscribing i5 cral construction of the 1balanlpelin this inwitnesses.

stance being such as is escri er in Letters h 1 1 T Patent No. 202,905, granted August 15, 1882, A M RED SPRILGER' to Frederick A. Roeder. The standard 0, in 'Witnesses: balances of this class, usually carries the scale- L. M. HOSEA,

pan fixed thereto at the upper end; but it is S. OSBORNE. 

